Included in this suite of products is PageScope Net Care, which provides network administrators with detailed information about the operating conditions of all output devices containing a
Management Information Base (MIB) on a network from any Web browser.
It will also reconfigure the current
management information base to accommodate greater device complexity.
EMC will counter with the argument that its initiative contributed to the more rapid development of an open standard, in much the same way as its going outside of SNIA to form the Fibre Alliance in the late 90s led to its
Management Information Base (MIB) being accepted by the SNIA as a whole.
This open-API (application platform interface) program includes a software developer's kit (SDK) that provides these companies full access to Cisco's MDS 9000 comprehensive set of industry standards-based SNMP
management information base (MIBs), including SNMP v2 for discovery and monitoring and SNMP v3 for secured configuration and access control.
Whenever a device such as a server, switch or router shows a deviation, or "spike," from normal behavior, Netcool/Visionary provides an instant explanation for the condition by analyzing management information residing on the device, accessed from its SNMP
Management Information Base. This helps operations teams to quickly identify why the device reported a problem.